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1822 Jany 21

Codification Offer

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?.5 Admission Universal

Of the repugnance /strenuousness/ with which a proposal to this effect is opposed by the current of particular interest in the situation of constituted legislator no one can be more intensely sensible than he is by whom it is thus brought forward. Experience however has shewn that acceptance is not every where and absolutely impossible: and in conjunction with acceptance given or not given to the offer of a rationale, acceptance given or not given to this proposal for the throwing open the door of the legislative Assembly to original draughts from all hands without exception may be stated as as a most instructive /searching/ test of appropriate aptitude on the part of a member of that body, and the rejection of /opposition to/ both not to say of /to/ either a proof altogether conclusive of relative inaptitude. It is an avowal of the uncontrouled predominance of sinister interest in his breast: it is a declaration as plain as it is in the power of words to give of a disregard of /for/ the greatest happiness of the greatest number: of a determination so far as depends upon him to give the utmost copiousness possible to the sinister sacrifice.